Jonathan Wiegner

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Its extent is rarely appreciated

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

Is the current Secretary of the Treasury really this misinformed? He just said that if you have an old gold or silver certificate, you can bring it to Fort Knox and claim your metal. That’s false. Gold certificates have not been redeemable for gold since 1933, and silver-certificate redemption ended in 1968. If Bessent is this ignorant about the history and status of U.S. currency, why should we trust his assurances about the gold supposedly held at Fort Knox?

[Jonathan Wiegner @J_Wiegner]

Unreal

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

The Trump administration illegally had me banned from Fox News, then committed another crime to cover up the evidence of the first. Trump ran for office promising to protect freedom of speech. The most important speech that must be protected is criticism of the government.

On Dec. 6, 2025, I appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss inflation. I had been a guest on the same show about two weeks earlier. During that interview, I made the factually accurate statement that consumer prices had continued to rise since Trump was elected president for a second time.

Trump immediately took to Truth Social to reply that I was a jerk, a loser, and a Trump hater because consumer prices were actually substantially lower than when he took office. He questioned why Fox News would have someone like me on and publicly chastised the person who booked me.

Since then, none of my contacts at Fox & Friends will even return my emails. I’m sure they are all afraid of losing their jobs if they do.

On January 19 I submitted a FOIA request seeking “copies of all records, including but not limited to emails, text messages, chat messages, memos, call notes, meeting notes, calendar entries, and any other written or electronic communications, from or to Jonathan Coppage (and/or any other FHFA employee) that relate to Peter Schiff, including records specifically relating to Peter Schiff’s appearance on Fox News “Fox & Friends” on December 6, 2025.

I received an initial response on May 6th claiming that not a single document responsive to my request existed. I followed up by explaining that I knew Jonathan Coopage had emailed Grabbien about my appearance because I had already seen a copy of that email. Today I received their final response, which included only the email I already knew existed—the same email that prompted my FOIA request in the first place.

There is no way this was the only record responsive to my request. First, their response omitted the email Grabbien must have sent in reply. It is also not credible that no other emails exist or that there were no other communications among the parties, either before or after this email was sent, concerning the very clip they had requested and received.

There should be national outrage that a sitting U.S. president would have a private citizen banned from a major news network for speaking critically of his economic policies, especially when the criticism is factual. There should also be outrage that the president’s staff would engage in an illegal cover-up to conceal evidence of presidential censorship.

Let’s see if there is at least one ethical journalist who actually believes in freedom of speech and is willing to investigate this. JD Vance recently downplayed the Watergate cover-up, claiming that if it happened now, it would be merely a “12-hour news story” and that it would be “crazy” to think it could bring down a presidency. Well, I think this cover-up is even worse—as is the conduct being covered up!

[Jonathan Wiegner @J_Wiegner]

there’s a geopolitical lesson here somewhere

[Calvin and Hobbes Fan Account @Calvinn_Hobbes]

Somehow this is the tiger’s fault.
#CalvinandHobbes #BlameGame

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

In related news, July 4th 2026 was intended to be the original end-date of DOGE, where they would have cut over a trillion dollars from the annual federal budget.

But instead it dismantled, because nothing stops this train.

[Barchart @Barchart]

New House Prices have dropped below Existing Homes for the first time in history 🚨🤯

[MONETARY MAYHEM @MONETARY_MAYHEM]

Silver $57.42
I don’t feel a thing

[Jonathan Wiegner @J_Wiegner]

@VladTheInflator Give @PassportPaulie a follow, the maker of this video. He’s got some interesting things to say.

[Jonathan Wiegner @J_Wiegner]

@2020Upstream To temporarily discourage investment into real investments by indirectly warping the truth that hard assets do well in crises and would otherwise crush all fiat.

[Jonathan Wiegner @J_Wiegner]

Oh, okay

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

TRUMP: WE WILL GROW OUR WAY OUT OF DEBT

[LiquidZulu, most consistent mofo you know @liquid2ulu]

Anyone remember that time that Bernie tried debating a libertarian?

[Tom Woods @ThomasEWoods]

The Boomers of Kentucky embarrassed the United States on the world stage today.

Around the world, people genuinely wondered: can an American politician survive who doesn't repeat low-IQ platitudes about Israel and the Middle East?

The Boomers -- with their heterodox Christianity and FOX News propaganda -- gave their answer.

Republican politics is dominated by people who for some reason still think Sean Hannity is a smart guy, and Mark Levin is a constitutional scholar.

Pat Buchanan had given them the example of the learned and articulate right-winger -- and Pat was well to the right of Hannity and Levin -- but they decided to go with Tomi Lahren and Dan Bongino instead.

Oh, Massie voted this way or that, people will say, and that's why he was targeted in this unprecedented way. Yet there's Donald Trump out there campaigning for pro-amnesty Mike Lawler. So I don't believe you that this is a question of Massie's voting record (which is stellar, by the way).

Even if Massie had had a handful of objectionable votes, a million times more important than any Massie vote is this principle:

A patriot who values his country's sovereignty cannot allow three socially leftist billionaires who represent a foreign interest to buy a congressional seat and place a ridiculous empty suit in it.

Even if for some reason you don't like Massie, you as a patriot would have to dislike THAT a hundred times more.

These three billionaires never once set foot in Kentucky -- Kentuckians, to them, are lower than dirt, and exist solely to have congressional seats bought from them.

Put up a nonentity like "Ed Gallrein" who refuses to debate (how can any voter reward that?), have him utter a few Boomer slogans to satisfy the rubes, and otherwise hide him away. That was the strategy. Boomers (yes, I know there are exceptions) are too morally and intellectually corrupt even to understand what just happened.

But the rest of us understand.

Can you imagine "Ed Gallrein" leading the charge against the Covid restrictions? He would have been first in line for the damn "vaccine"!

Remember, too, that the folks who voted for "Ed Gallrein" tonight are the kind of people who think Marco Rubio is an impressive person, so there was no reaching them.

But the younger generations, who don't get their information from the insulting caricature of conservatism that is FOX News, aren't going to fall for the nonsense that snookered the Boomers -- and therein lies hope.

Incidentally, the easiest thing in the world would have been for Massie to buckle. Nobody reading this has the remotest idea the pressure that was brought to bear against him. Not one of his detractors could have lasted a week in Massie's shoes.

If Trump can sup in happy concord with Zohran Mamdani, the radical leftist mayor of New York, you'd think he could have spared a meal with Massie, whose track record proved he was not Trump's enemy.

Not that you'd know it from the anti-Massie brigade (half of whom used to love Massie before they were instructed not to love him), Massie defended Trump through two impeachments, grilled Merrick Garland over FBI assets on January 6, and defended Trump during Russiagate. By contrast, "Ed Gallrein" left the GOP when Trump was elected, and came back only when Biden was in office.

But since we're not completely dense, we know the real reason Massie could not be tolerated.

As Glenn Greenwald put it, "If the AIPAC/Adelson crowd wants someone out of Congress for disloyalty to Israel, they will be out of Congress.

"There are a few exceptions due to unusual districts, but not many. The Israel Lobby has unlimited funding and will spend limitlessly to expunge the blasphemous."

I repeat that no American patriot can tolerate, much less celebrate, this grotesque and demeaning situation.

The polls show that this situation won't exist forever. We will reach a point at which the foreign money (and that's obviously what it is) will at last be a mark of shame for the candidate receiving it. That will be a great day for American patriots everywhere.

Thomas Massie should hold his head high: he stood up against the machine time and again, knowing that it could one day lead to this.

Tonight we have to explain to our kids: in this world, the good guys don't always win. But you fight regardless of the prospects of winning. The fight for what is good and right is an end in itself.

For that reason, people will remember the Thomas Massies and the Ron Pauls. Nobody will remember "Ed Gallrein," not even as the answer to a trivia question.

[Jonathan Wiegner @J_Wiegner]

They gave @RepThomasMassie the @RonPaul treatment.

[Jonathan Wiegner @J_Wiegner]

“Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.” Proverbs 31:9

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

NOW - Trump reiterates that American's financial situations are less important than the Iran war: "That's right, that's a perfect statement, I'd make it again."

[Jonathan Wiegner @J_Wiegner]

@disclosetv “Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.” Proverbs 31:9

[GoldFish Charts @GoldFishCharts]

US CPI vs ShadowStats CPI

[Jonathan Wiegner @J_Wiegner]

Gift wrapping the turd of collectivism in “unpopular opinion” is peak midwit

[Tom Woods @ThomasEWoods]

@Nithya_Shrii That's actually a very popular opinion among stupid people who if they got their way would be living in Third World conditions or dead

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

@MarioNawfal He can't name his favorite Bible verse. He forgot to put his hand on the Bible during his swearing in.

When Pope Francis died, he posted a pic of himself as Pope. Then he criticized the next Pope and posted a pic of himself as Jesus.

It's not strange or unclear.

[Braudel Marx @BraudelMarx]

@mtracey Launch a war against Iran to cover up the Epstein files.

Relaunch the Epstein files to cover up the strategic defeat to Iran.

[Jonathan Wiegner @J_Wiegner]

2 weeks to flatten the curve amirite

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

TRUMP IS SET TO CONFIRM IN HIS WEDNESDAY SPEECH THE 2-3 WEEK PLAN TO END OPERATIONS IN IRAN, ACCORDING TO A WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL.